The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-23

imply he was about to b handed ovsr -
the overseer Of the poor. Careful to poy
their passage from LIVERPOOL 20 Nsw
York, yet smuggling IN their 6aratc1n
trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and half
dozen watches from Geneva, 6wit1ss-
land. telling the custom.house 0flcef %
the wharf. There IS nothing in that
trunk but wearing apparel" and putting
. five dollar gOld-piecc in his hand -
punctuate the statement
Described in tho text are an those who
are particular never to break the law q
grammar, and who want all their language
IN elegant specimen Of syntax. ssraintDg
out all the inaccuracies Of speech with
fine sieve Of literary criticism, whils
through their conversation go Islander
and innuendo and profanity and FALSE
hood larger than q whole caravan Of cam
els, when they miei.t better fracture
every law Of th, language and
shock intellectual taste, and bee-
ter let every verb seek In vain
for It's nominative. and every
noun for It's government. and every pre-
position lose its way in the sentence. and
adjectives and participles and prououns
get into . grand riot worthy OF she
Fourth Ward on election dav, than 70
commit . moral inaeeu-acy. Better swal-
low . thousand gnats than ons camel.
Such persons are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about
the small faults Of others. and have NO
a'arm about their own transgressions.
There are in every community and in
every church watchdogs who feel called
upon to keep their eyes on others and
growl. They are full Of suspicion.
They wonder If that man is not d;shonesf,
il that man is not unclean, il there is mot
something wrong about the other man.
They are always the first to hear of any
thing wrong. Vultures are always the
first to smell carrion They are self
appointed detectives. Il Law this down ~
rule. without any exception, that those
people who have the most faults them
se'ves are the most merciless in their
watching Of Others. From scalp of head
to sole of foot they are full of jealousies
and bypercritic SINS. They spend their
life in hunting for muskrats and mud.tm-
ties, instead of hunting for Rocky Mount
ain eagles; always for something
mean instead Of something grand.
tions through q microscope, and look ~
their own impsrfections through teles-
cope upside down. Twenty faults Of
their own do not hurt them so much ~
one fault Of somebody else. Their neigh
bors' imperfections are like gnats, and
they strain them out; their own impeY-
fections are like camels, and they swal
low them.
But lest some might think they escape
the scrutiny of the text, have to tell Won
that we all come under the Divine satire
when we make the questions Of time
more prominent than the questions Of
eternity. Come, now, let us all go
into the confessional. Are not all
tempted to make the question. Where
shall live now? greater than the ques-
ton, Where shall I live forever? How
shall get more dollars here: greater than
the question, How shall lay mp treasures
in Heaven? Tho question. How shall /
pay my debts to man? greater than the
question, How shall I meet my obliga-
tiOns to God? The question, How shall /
gain the world? greater than the ques.
ton, What il lose my soul? The ques-
ton. Why did God le. sin come into the
world, greater than the question, How
shall get extirpated from my nature?
The question. What shall I do with
the twenty, or forty or seventy
years of my sublunar existence:
greater than the question, What
shall do with tho millions of cycles Of
my post-terrestrial existencei Time. how
small it is! Eternity. how vast it is The
former more insignificant in comparisons
with the latter than gnat is insiynif1cant
when compared with a camel. We lodged
Inc text. We said: 'That DOESN'T mean
NE, and that doe sn't mean me-" and with
! runous bensvolence we are giving the
whole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge.
" hat an ado about things here. What
,oor preparation for ereat
eternity. AS though a minnow wero
anger than behsmo.h. n
hough a swallow took wider circuit than
IN albatross. az though a nettie wero
aller than q Lebanon cedar, az though
mat were greater than camel, as though
minute were longer than a century, rs
housh time were higher. deeper, broader
han eternity. So the text which flashed
With lightning OF wit as Christ uttered it
> followed by the c-ashing thunders Of
Iwful catastrophe to those who make tho
luestions Of the tims greater than the
Iuestions Of the future, the oncoming,
future. o etsrnity3
ternity! eternity!